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Child saved from Jehovah’s Witness parents
Published: 11 June, 2009, 14:06
Edited: 02 October, 2010, 12:37
TAGS: Children, Health, Religion, Georgia, Human rights
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has demanded that a four-year-old-girl be saved from almost certain death. The girl’s parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, were preventing hospital doctors from treating her.
The Tsarelishvili family claims their religious views stopped them from allowing a vital blood transfusion to their daughter Inna.
Police and doctors, however, were ordered to intervene and have now taken the girl suffering from severe burns back to the hospital where she remains in intensive care.
“In this case, it doesn’t matter how you interpret the law and which religion you follow. I demand the child to be urgently transferred to hospital. The police and prosecutors should act in accordance with the law and never allow the state to find itself in such a helpless situation. In this case, I have no interest in the views of parents,” Mikhail Saakashvili said.
The Georgian president added that a criminal case could be launched against the parents if they refused to cooperate.
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Well,from what I know,children may be considered as under the care of their parents,but it is also said that as long as they aren't 18(can decide for themselves),they may be considered as someone not officially under any religion(meaning their parents' religion is not of theirs, but merely guides to what they may choose to be under in the future) But then, I think about how the child would be growing up,she'd probably be ignored/neglected because of being "tainted".What a sad,twisted fate she would fall into. She would be saved from death,only to be submitted into a torturous life of rejection by her parents,because of living due to blood transfusion. So somehow,I just can't understand why people suddenly come up in society to create a sect that is said to be an "improvement" of a religion. I apologize if I'm disrespectful to the sects of the religion,but why can't people be satisfied of what has been long taught?Or if they're so unsatisfied,why don't they just quit the concept of religion altogether? I even feel that those who create the sects,merely feel the need to do so because of wanting others to believe their own concept of the religion/the Bible or they don't agree with a practice just because it's not convenient for them-or simply for the money and fame. I grow tired of the battles about religion since some are drowned in their own hopes and desires of salvation to hear the cry of sense and logic-much more in matters of people dying. If only life was simple... Sorry,I'm ranting.I just had a long debate with a Born-Again.I just really hate its superiority complex about salvation and whatnot...keep telling me "I'm just not as close to God as they are" Ugh and that "I'm not reading the Bible right" what is with that?How do THEY know they're reading it right?They answer with "God talks to us" right and He doesn't talk to me because "You're not Born Again"...that's where our conversation always ends...in circles really...
Tami, I hear you, but that is a very controlled situation. When someone is bleeding out, they need blood.
My feelings come from losing a friend who was a Johova Witness.
What a good guy and a great father and family guide. Sadly he died directly from refusing blood that would have saved his life, and his children and wife would not have been left without a husband or father.
Tami Newland wrote in#18
My mother is a devoted Jehovah's Witness. She has had many major heart surgeries and several various other surgeries and never once had a single blood transfusion. They use a cell saver machine that recycles your own blood. Many diseases have been spread by the use of blood transfusions that are not needed, not to mention many other complications. People are judging without being informed. Makes one look like a fool.
Jennifer, I understand your frustrations with peoples and their religions. They all seem to have their own take on things and believe if you do not believe as they do that you will be cast to some fiery place of torment for a short period or longer.
However, I must say (and I don't know if it has already been commented on) that Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect. I only make this statement not in an argumenative way, but because of the definition of the term sect. Which usually refers to a group of religious patrons that break away from their current denomination and start their own.
In light of the definment of sect Jehovah's Witnesses started as a small bible study group and grew from there, they (for the record) did not "Break away from" someother religious organization in search of greener pastures.
With all due respect I tell you have a grand day